Went to Cheekwood to see the Chihuly exhibits lit up at night. It was beautiful! The kids had a fun time running around in the dark, too.Saturday, October 16, 2010
Chihuly Nights
Went to Cheekwood to see the Chihuly exhibits lit up at night. It was beautiful! The kids had a fun time running around in the dark, too.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Road Trip Day 4
Swimming in hotel pool for 20 minutes (it was chilly)
Driving to Tuscumbia, AL to see Helen Keller's home
Highlights: Seeing a Braille writer (descriptions didn't quite give me the mental picture I needed -- the real thing makes sense) and THE water pumpRoad Trip Day 3
Drive to Shark Tooth Creek (trailer ride to the creek, 90 minutes of tooth hunting, lunch, playground and zip line) Found out about this place in an issue of Family Fun, only to find that the owners are related to friends of mine!!!
Highlights: Actually finding teeth just lying on the ground!!! Daniel won a t-shirt for finding one of the biggest/best teeth, too!
Drive to Florence, AL
Road Trip Day 2
First Stop: Explorations in Antiquity Center in La Grange, GA (walk through reproduction of Biblical tent, garden, house, tomb, well, etc. with fascinating details and symbolism & Biblical meal.)
Highlights: Symbolism of the four stages of the olive press; sitting in Jesus' spot at the table of the last supper while eating our Biblical meal; Emily getting to pull water from the well
Highlights: Symbolism of the four stages of the olive press; sitting in Jesus' spot at the table of the last supper while eating our Biblical meal; Emily getting to pull water from the well
Driving to Tuscaloosa
Adventure: Walking to dinner -- across 7 lanes of traffic. Clearly most people do not walk in that part of town!
Road Trip Day 1
First stop: Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta.
Highlights: Rain table (hold a wand over the table and watch computer generated rain hall and roll down mountain slopes -- cool); eye and ear exhibit as we are studying the five senses this week; twisting stairs; huge dinosaur bone reproductions; IMAX video on the Nile, which we are studying in history
Adventure: Driving back to Pizza Hut for Noil, Emily's new sea lion stuffed animal (name is lion backwards)
Then drive to La Grange, GA for the night.
Highlights: Rain table (hold a wand over the table and watch computer generated rain hall and roll down mountain slopes -- cool); eye and ear exhibit as we are studying the five senses this week; twisting stairs; huge dinosaur bone reproductions; IMAX video on the Nile, which we are studying in historyAdventure: Driving back to Pizza Hut for Noil, Emily's new sea lion stuffed animal (name is lion backwards)
Then drive to La Grange, GA for the night.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Zoo with Friends
We met friends at the Zoo today. The kids had a fantastic time hanging out together. Daniel pushed Kimberly around most of the time and loved it.
The most interesting part of the visit was the raccoon. You know, the kind NOT in a cage. While watching the meerkats my friend noticed that things kept dropping into the enclosure from above. She looked up, assuming it was a squirrel, to see a raccoon sitting up high in this huge old tree. As we watched, he started climbing towards the trunk, and then down. We sat down on the ground out of the way to see what would happen, recognizing that this was odd behavior for the daytime. Sure enough, part way down the trunk, he fell. He got up, and then started wobbling and walking down the path, not bothered in the least as we followed.
I ran to the cafeteria, the closest building, to tell them to call someone because this was not a healthy animal. A few minutes later the head chef, not a zookeeper, came walking up. We described what happened and told him where the raccoon was. He said it had fallen out of a tree yesterday, too, and they'd been trying to trap it.
Strange.
The most interesting part of the visit was the raccoon. You know, the kind NOT in a cage. While watching the meerkats my friend noticed that things kept dropping into the enclosure from above. She looked up, assuming it was a squirrel, to see a raccoon sitting up high in this huge old tree. As we watched, he started climbing towards the trunk, and then down. We sat down on the ground out of the way to see what would happen, recognizing that this was odd behavior for the daytime. Sure enough, part way down the trunk, he fell. He got up, and then started wobbling and walking down the path, not bothered in the least as we followed.I ran to the cafeteria, the closest building, to tell them to call someone because this was not a healthy animal. A few minutes later the head chef, not a zookeeper, came walking up. We described what happened and told him where the raccoon was. He said it had fallen out of a tree yesterday, too, and they'd been trying to trap it.
Strange.
Friday, October 1, 2010
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